Josephine Said (1921-2008)

SAID, ROMEDAHL, CREE, COCKERHAM, URAMOTO, STEELE

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 1/23/2008 at 07:39:07

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, January 22, 2008.

Dec. 10, 1921-Jan. 17, 2008

Josephine Said, 86, former longtime Boone County native, died Thursday, Jan. 17, at Novato Community Hospital in Novato, Calif. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery in Luther.

Josephine Said was born Dec. 10, 1921, the daughter of Joe and Gladys (Cree) Romedahl. She graduated from Napier High School, Simpson College with a major in sociology and earned a master's degree in library science at the University of Iowa.

She married Alphonse Said, of Cairo, Egypt, Aug. 30, 1953, in Luther. After they married, they lived in California, Egypt and Nigeria. Following her husband's death in 1966, she and her family moved back to Boone, where she worked as a librarian for the Iowa Department of Transportation in Ames. In 1983, she accepted a library position in the "Sound of Music" castle in Salzburg, Austria, and lived there for eight years. After she retired, she moved back to Boone, and then to Appleton, Wis. In 2004, she and her family all reunited in California.

Throughout her life, she was very involved with the Methodist church. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Boone, where she was active on many committees and served as fundraising co-chair of the church's remodeling project. When she lived in Wisconsin, she worked with the local United Methodist Church to establish a youth-based satellite church. She enjoyed volunteering with the Community Clothes Closet, a nonprofit organization that helped provide clothing to needy families. She also supported causes that helped needy women and families throughout the world.

She is survived by two children, Patricia Cockerham and husband, Keith, and Ramsey Said and wife, Jane Uramoto, all of Novato, Calif. She also is survived by one sister, Mildred Steele and husband, Otto, of Pella; one sister-in-law, Hayat Said, of Cairo, Egypt; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.

Those wishing to express their sympathies through a memorial in Josephine's name may wish to consider First United Methodist Church of Boone, the American Cancer Society or their own choice in lieu of flowers.

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